'What
is so extraordinary about this body of work is the passionate clarity
of the ideas that fuel it and the formal precision of the narrative
and cinematographic structures which allow the viewer in.' Leslie
Dick

Paul
Bush's films challenge the boundaries that separate fiction, documentary
and animation. His background in Fine Art is an influence on all his
work and this is reflected in its inclusion in art collections and exhibitions
as well as cinema distribution and television broadcast. During the
1980's he wrote and directed several short and medium length films that
were critically acclaimed but it was not until the 1990's that his films
became widely distributed and he was able to concentrate all his attention
on film-making. During the 90's his films were commissioned by all the
major broadcasters, won numerous awards and were shown in cinemas, exhibitions
and television all round the world. During this period he usually used
single frame techniques often involving live action elements. In 1999
he was polled in second place in Creation's list of top directors of
animation. In 1996 he set up his company Ancient Mariner Productions
to produce his own films and he also directs commercials and his clients
have included Panasonic and Philips. In 2003 he was awarded a Nesta fellowship to develop feature films. His first feature Babeldom was completed in 2012. Due to the lack of funding in the UK for animation or experimental films he now has to finance his films through money raised by lecturing.

Bush was born in 1956 and studied Fine Art at Central School and Goldsmiths
College, London. He taught himself how to make films while a member
of the London Film-makers Co-op and Chapter Film Workshop in Cardiff.
From 1981 to 1993 he taught film-making, establishing a film workshop
in South London and supervising a wide variety of courses and the production
of numerous student films. between 1995 and 2001 he taught on the visual
arts course at Goldsmiths. He has lectured, run workshops and tutored
at numerous art and film courses around the world including the Media
Academy of Cologne, National Film Board of Canada, The Netherlands Institute of Animation Films, CalArts,
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Turin, St Lukas in Brussels,
KASK in Ghent, Anadolou University in Turkey, HGK Lucerne, and the Royal
College of Arts, Duncan of Jordanstone and the National Film and Television
School in Britain.

'Paul Bush is part scavenger, part inventor. Nothing is out of bounds and everything is worth trying. This is what makes Bush's work so welcoming; you never know what you are in for but you know it will be smart, funny, provocative and unique.' Chris Robinson

'Let nobody forget the sheer pleasure of watching this work, for its technical achievement, for its verve and ambition,its pace and constant surprise, for its beauty.'
Gareth Evans

'Bush
has demonstrated a fascination with artistic techniques of the past,
particularly those that have endowed us with works whose great and enduring
beauty tend to eclipse the extraordinary degree of devoted labour involved
in creating them.' Chris Darke

'The
secret preoccupation of these films, finally, is beauty. It may be the
case that the film-maker, in focusing so relentlessly on issues of time,
narrative, history, the intersection of the graphic and the cinematic,
and the question of clarity of presentation, doesn't himself see it
but the viewer does. As if beauty were a necessary by-product of these
investigations, beyond the intention of the artist, yet an inevitable
result of his rigorous control and passionate pursuit of meaning.'
Leslie Dick